The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

Mainstream theories suggest that ultra-short period planets did not start in their current positions but migrated from ...

Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.

The orbits of a seven-planet system discovered in Kepler Space Telescope data has been sonified. Credit: Bishop’s University / Jason Rowe / NASA Ames Research Center ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from.

The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found.

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

Pythagoras created a tuning system where musical notes are related by a perfect 5th. This method was used to turn the orbits ...

Recently, the field of astronomy has been quite lively, as new discoveries from Kepler data have directly overturned our previous understanding of planetary orbits!

Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e may contain an atmosphere and liquid water, NASA scientists said. Research into the exoplanet is ...

Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this ...